I'm trying to get harder and tougher mentally and physically every day.

You're either the growth mindset or you're the fixed mindset.

If you're trying to be the best, you need to look at who the best is and see what they do.

Relentless pursuit of progress.

There's a difference between the best and the rest.

Welcome to the Brute Strength Podcast.

Champions are built in the morning first.

Where we interview scientists, world champions,

doctors and experts,

in just about every area of health and fitness.

What do you care enough about?

What are you fascinated enough about to go so deep and learn so much that you'll know more about it than anyone else?

And now here's your host, Michael Kasyu, and today I want to talk to you about how to thrive under pressure, how you can actually cultivate and develop this within yourself.

And if you feel like you already have this dialed in, then this could just help you take that to the next level.

Before we started Brute, Matt Bruce and I used to do some seminars for this company that he

started called Bruce Barbell.

Occasionally we would have one of his top weightlifter help us deliver the snatch and

clean and jerk portion of the seminar and one of these guys was named Mike.

So one Saturday it's about 4.30 a.m. and we're driving from Baton Rouge to Houston, Texas.

We pull up at Mike's house.

He gets in the car and he reeks of booze and cigarettes and he tells us that he just

went to sleep two hours ago and he's still piss drunk and the funny part

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